Sapphire Plug-ins for After Effects: WarpWaves2

S_WarpWaves2

Warps the source clip using two sets of overlapping wave patterns. You can
make the waves move over time by increasing the Phase Speed parameters, or
by animating the value of the Phase Start parameters.

In the Sapphire Distort effects submenu.

Inputs:

Source:
The current layer.
The input clip to be warped.

Matte:
Defaults to None.
If provided, the amplitude of warping is scaled
by the values of this input clip. Gray values internally scale the
warping amplitude rather than simply cross-fading between the effect
and the original source to allow more continuous results at the
matte edges and more detailed control over the warping amounts.
This input can be affected using the Blur Matte, Invert Matte, or
Matte Use parameters.

Parameters:

Load Preset:
Push-button
.
Brings up the Preset Browser to browse all available presets for this effect.

Save Preset:
Push-button
.
Brings up the Preset Save dialog to save a preset for this effect.

Blur Mocha:
Default:
0,
Range:
0 or greater.
Blurs the Mocha Mask by this amount before using.
This can be used to soften the edges or quantization artifacts of
the mask, and smooth out the time displacements.

Mocha Opacity:
Default:
1,
Range:
0 to 1.
Controls the strength of the Mocha mask.
Lower values reduce the intensity of the effect.

Invert Mocha:
Check-box, Default:
off.
If enabled, the black and white of the Mocha Mask
are inverted before applying the effect.

Show Mocha Only:
Check-box, Default:
off.
Bypass the effect and show the Mocha Mask itself.

Combine Masks:
Popup menu, Default: Union
.
Determines how to combine the Mocha Mask and Input
Mask when both are supplied to the effect.

Union:
Uses the area covered by both masks together.

Intersect:
Uses the area that overlaps between the two masks.

Mocha Only:
Ignore the Input Mask and only use the
Mocha Mask.

A Waves Parameters:

A Amplitude:
Default:
0.06,
Range:
any.
The amplitude of the first set of waves.

A Frequency:
Default:
6,
Range:
0.01 or greater.
The frequency of the first set of waves. Increase
for more waves, decrease for fewer.

A Angle:
Default:
45,
Range:
any.
The rotation angle of the first set of waves in degrees.

A Displace Angle:
Default:
0,
Range:
any.
The warping direction of the first set of waves
in degrees relative to their angle.

A Phase Start:
Default:
0,
Range:
any.
The phase shift of the first set of waves.

A Phase Speed:
Default:
1,
Range:
any.
If non-zero, the first set of wave automatically
travels at this rate.

B Waves Parameters:

B Amplitude:
Default:
0.12,
Range:
any.
The amplitude of the second set of waves.

B Frequency:
Default:
3,
Range:
0.01 or greater.
The frequency of the second set of waves. Increase
for more waves, decrease for fewer.

B Angle:
Default:
15,
Range:
any.
The rotation angle of the second set of waves in degrees.

B Displace Angle:
Default:
0,
Range:
any.
The warping direction of the second set of waves
in degrees relative to their angle.

B Phase Start:
Default:
0,
Range:
any.
The phase shift of the second set of waves.

B Phase Speed:
Default:
-1,
Range:
any.
If non-zero, the second set of wave automatically
travels at this rate.

Other Parameters:

Z Dist:
Default:
1,
Range:
0.001 or greater.
Scales the 'distance' of the image. Values greater than 1.0
move it farther away and make it smaller. Values less than 1.0 move
the image closer and enlarge it. Zooming in slightly can sometimes be
used to hide edge artifacts.

Reflect:
repeats a mirrored copy. Edges are often less
visible with this method.

Filter:
Check-box, Default:
on.
If enabled, the image is adaptively filtered when it is
resampled. This gives a better quality result when parts of the image
are warped smaller.

Blur Matte:
Default:
0,
Range:
0 or greater.
Blurs the Matte input by this amount before using. This
can provide a smoother transition between the matted and unmatted
areas. It has no effect unless the Matte input is provided.

Invert Matte:
Check-box, Default:
off.
If on, inverts the Matte input so the effect is applied
to areas where the Matte is black instead of white. This has no effect
unless the Matte input is provided.

Matte Use:
Popup menu, Default: Luma
.
Determines how the Matte input channels are used to make
a monochrome matte.

All Opaque:
Use this option to render slightly faster when
the input image is fully opaque with no transparency (alpha=1).

Normal:
Process opacity normally.

As Premult:
Process as if the image is already in
premultiplied form (colors have been scaled by opacity). This option
also renders slightly faster than Normal mode, but the results will
also be in premultiplied form, which is sometimes less correct.
If your image has sharp color changes where the matte
channel also has sharp edges, you may get better results with Normal
mode.

Crop Input Parameters:
Default:
0,
Range:
0 or greater.
These 4 parameters,
Crop Top
,
Crop Bottom
,
Crop Left,
and
Crop Right
,
allow selecting a rectangular subsection of the input image to be processed.
If the Wrap parameters are set to "No" the exposed borders will be transparent.
If the Wrap is "Tile" or "Reflect" the source image is wrapped on the new cropped borders to fill the frame.
This can make it easier to avoid artifacts due to distorting an image with bad edges.